- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Reprint (26. November 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679768645
- ISBN-13: 978-0679768647
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,1 x 1,4 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
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The Galton Case, published in 1959, was Ross Macdonald's breakthrough book. Its predecessors are craftsmanlike, highly literate, hard-boiled detective stories; The Galton Case and most of its successors are literature that happens to inhabit the detective-story form. For Macdonald the man, Galton was the first book in which he explored his deepest personal concerns (he was the child of a broken home who was passed from relative to relative in his youth). For readers, it's the book in which he first perfected the balancing act that became his trademark: a tightly written page-turner that also probes profound themes and frequently rises to something like poetry.
The tale opens with detective Lew Archer visiting the swanky offices of a lawyer acquaintance, who engages him to hunt for a long-missing scion of the rich Galton family. Though the case seems fruitless, Archer begins digging. Soon a seemingly unrelated crime intrudes--but Archer tells us, "I hate coincidences." As he roams California (and, briefly, Nevada) following leads and hunches, he gradually uncovers a long-buried tale of deception, hatred, and the power of illusion. As usual, Macdonald can accomplish more with three lines of dialogue and a simple description than most writers can in three pages. The connection between Archer's two cases finally clicks about three-quarters of the way through the book, and the moving denouement, with its final plot twist, takes place in a hardscrabble Canadian boarding house much like those in which Macdonald spent parts of his childhood. The Galton Case is an exceptionally satisfying read on several levels. --Nicholas H. Allison
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Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.
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I have come to depend on MacDonald's mysteries as ideal beach reads and this one lives up to that expectation every bit. Fun, with film noir-type dialog and scrappy detective umph, this books really does make you care about the "bad" guys and the good ones.
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This was the third book I have read by Ross MacDonald and I think they are all excellent. This book is simply a great classic mystery, complete with well-developed characters, sharp dialogue, and a realistic plot that twists and turns and keeps you guessing until the last chapter. It seems like hundreds of writers have been compared to Hammett and Chandler, but Ross MacDonald is, in my opinion, one of the very few who deserve such a comparison.
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It took me over a year to pick up a Archer mystery. Now, lucky me I have to read them all. MacDonald's works are like a out of control train ride. They start slow and steady but gain speed as the plot thickens, until you reach the point you can't stop reading until the end. This title is no exception. Read any Archer mystery and you will want more.
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This is my first MacDonald novel and I was not disappointed. I had heard RM compared favorably to Hammett and Chandler and the comparisons are just. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Oktober 1998 von TMac
The best book to start one of mystery's best writers.
Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer is one of the most fascinating detective creations in American mystery literature. MacDonald is a terrific stylist and, like P.D. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. August 1997 von lfm1@is4.nyu.edu
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